Sprint recently announced the availability of the LG Lotus Elite Clamshell Mobile Phone to its customers. The Lotus Elite features a 3.42-inch full resistive touchscreen display in a clamshell form casing and a second 2.4-inch touchscreen display when clamshell is closed. It has a full qwerty keyboard, a 2.0 megapixel camera with video recording, a music player, GPS navigation, Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR, Web Browser, Email Client, support for Transflash and microSD cards, USB port, support for 3G,EVDO,1xEVDO networks and a 1000 mAh battery that offers 5.9 hours of talktime.

The Sprint LG Lotus Elite is available now for a price of $99.99 with a two year contract.

Sprint, today announced that its HTC Hero and Samsung Moment Smartphones will be updated to Android 2.0 in the first half of 2010 via its official Twitter Account. If you should take to a lot of customers who own either of these phones will tell you that this is way overdue. As for the Hero, HTC isn’t yet done prepping Sense for 2.0 so they’re probably in a holding pattern there, however the Moment that is running android 1.5 deserves the update to 2.0.

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Sprint and Motorola has announced a new slider phone, the Motorola i856 Slider Phone which sports Push-To-Talk Functions. The new Motorola i856 is an iDEN device which was designed to use with Nextel Direct Connect push-to-talk service for instant chats between groups for just two person where next door or two states apart.

The Motorola Slider Phone features a colored LCD display and comes with a 1.3 Megapixel camera, built-in Media Player with 3D audi equilizer, Bluetooth and a 3.5mm audio jack. Get yours at Sprint Outlets Nationwide for a price of $99.99 with a two-year contract and $50 mail-in rebate.

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Sprint and Samsung Mobile recently announced the Samsung Moment Android Smartphone’s availability to their consumers in the United States. The Samsung Android Phone comes sporting a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, a side-slide QWERTY keyboard, a 3.2 Megapixel auto focus camera with flash and video recording, built-in media player, Bluetooth, GPS support and a microSD card slot.

The Samsung SPH-M900 Moment is powered by an 800MHz processor and runs the Android OS. The Sprint Moment also includes built-in Google mobile services, including Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube, as well as thousands of applications available in Android Market. The Samsung Moment will be available on 1 November for $179.99 after a $50 instant savings and a $100 mail-in-rebate with a two-year contract.

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As Microsoft announces the Windows Mobile 6.5 OS, so we are seeing new Windows Mobile Smartphone releases from left and right. We saw the HTC Pure, Tilt 2 from AT&T and Verizon’s HTC Imagio. Now Sprint presents to us the Samsung Intrepid (aka Samsung Ace II, Samsung SPH-I350), a bar-type QWERTY mobile phone running the Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional.

It sports a 2.5-inch touchscreen display with 320×240 resolution along with a 3.2 Megapixel camera with video recording capability, easy access to social networking sites, including Facebook, Flickr and Twitter, Bluetooth and WiFi Connectivity and GPS Support plus microSD card slot for memory expansion up to 32GB.

The Samsung Intrepid will be available at Sprint outlets starting on October 11th with a price of $149.99 after a $50 instant savings and $100 mail-in rebate with a new two-year contract.

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Hey Fans of the Palm Pre, if you have been dying to get one. This may be the best chance you have to get one at a reasonable price of only $99. It is available now at Amazon, however it comes with a new 2-years subscriber agreement from Sprint.

This is an exceptional deal, as sprint presently is offering the Palm Pre at a sales price of $150 in its stores across the United States.

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Sprint announces the launch of its new Samsung Instinct HD Mobile Phone. It is the lastest update of the Samsung Instinct, it features a high-def (HD) 5 Megapixel camera and camcorder but unfortunately it doesn’t support HD playback on the device, instead via its HD TV-out for photo and video playback.

It features a touchscreen display with a 480×420 resolution, it also features haptic feedback, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, Ambient Light Sensor, Accelerometer and Proximity Sensor. The Samsung Instinct HD works with Sprint’s EVDO Rev. A 3G networks and comes pre-loaded with Opera Mobile 9.7 web browser. Get it for $249.99 with a new two-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate.

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Sprint has gotten their version of the well anticipated HTC Hero android-powered smartphone. The Sprint Version really looks different from the regular one as it has more of a oval shape than the rectangular shape the regular one has.

The Sprint HTC Hero supports CDMA EVDO Rev.A 3G network unlike the regular HTC Hero which supports GSM/WCDMA Networks. It features a 3.2-inch touchscreen display with a 5 megapixel camera, integrated GPS receiver, trackball navigation, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a microSD card slot just like the GSM Version. The Sprint HTC Hero also comes with the custom HTC Sense UI and HTC footprint.

It also comes with app for social networking sites such as Facebook, Flickr and Twitter. The Sprint HTC Hero will be available to customers as of October 11th for a price of $179.99 on a two year contract after a a $50 instant savings and a $100 mail-in rebate.

via [LoopyGadgets]